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Must-Have Writer Resources: Some Obvious, Others Less So
These are the places I return to when I need a boost
You never finish learning how to write. That may be frustrating to new writers but as you progress it becomes the best thing about the writer’s life. We have infinite places to go with this.
I’ve been writing for most of my life. Yet I feel, after at least forty years, that I am just now getting to a competent level, a level where I have my own voice and style. Can I describe it? No, to be honest, but I see it emerge when the flow is good.
The writers I know and admire are, in turn, admirers of other writers. This is because what a Raymond Carver can do is utterly different than what a Stephen King can do and this difference, not a competition, is what makes writing so fascinating.
That fascination can also be a frustration as you look at something seemingly perfect and then at the words you just wrote. But, when you read the process these other writers describe, you find they go through exactly the same comparison angst.
One of the things that helps me when I’m blocked or thinking that what I’m working on is junk, is reading or listening to the experiences of others. Here are a few resources you may have heard of and some you may not have encountered. I’ll…
